Writing
Building companies, leading people, and an honest account of what endurance sport teaches.
12 pieces
Leadership
Every founder who has finished a long race wants to tell you it is like building a company. Most of that does not survive contact with either activity.
Leadership
A team captaincy is the first job where the outcome depends on people under no obligation to do what you say. Most of leadership is that job.
Leadership
Three of the companies I have been part of exist because the previous one exposed a constraint it could not solve. That sequence was not planned and it was not accidental.
Leadership
The start is exciting and the end is satisfying. Almost everything that determines the outcome happens in a stretch that has neither quality.
Leadership
Four questions, all uncomfortable early and all catastrophic late. The discomfort does not decrease with time. The cost does increase.
Leadership
It is the cheapest credibility available and it is almost never used, because it feels like it costs something.
Leadership
It arrives quietly and it is genuinely hard to see from the inside, because from the inside it looks like being needed.
Leadership
Everything about founder culture trains persistence. Almost nothing trains the opposite judgement, which is required just as often.
Leadership
Three things I believed early that did not hold. All three are common beliefs, which is partly why I held them.
Leadership
Everyone agrees with this and comparatively few do it. The obstacle is not recognising the principle.
Leadership
A meeting that keeps happening about the same topic is usually not a communication problem. It is an ownership problem.
Leadership
Publishing opinions in a regulated industry is a small amount of risk for a specific and worthwhile return.